Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsm53c..06t&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SM53C-06
Physics
7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, 2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions
Scientific paper
Full 3D plasma observations in the cusp have been successfully used to investigate the location of the reconnection site at the magnetopause. In this model low-velocity cutoffs in the precipitating and mirrored magnetosheath population on open cusp field lines are used to estimate the distance to the reconnection line. This distance is subsequently traced back along the model magnetic field lines to the magnetopause. Two cusp crossings on March 3, 2003, observed by the Cluster satellites in the northern hemisphere and the Polar spacecraft in the southern hemisphere during similar solar wind and southward IMF conditions, are used to trace the location of the reconnection site from two directions. Both estimates point to a reconnection site in the southern hemisphere close to the anti-parallel reconnection site.
Fuselier Stephen A.
Peterson William K.
Petrinec Steven M.
Trattner K. J.
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